Synopsis
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
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Cast
- Michael CaineJack Carter
- Ian HendryEric
- Britt EklandAnna
- John OsborneKinnear
- Tony BeckleyPeter
- George SewellCon
- Geraldine MoffatGlenda
- Rosemarie DunhamEdna
- Petra MarkhamDoreen
- Alun ArmstrongKeith
Recommendations
- 100
TV Guide Magazine
Grim, violent, and stylishly directed, Get Carter is an interesting film that brings some freshness to British crime cinema. - 100
Empire
Possibly Caine's finest hour in one of the grittiest, most suspense-filled crime dramas of all time. - 100
The Guardian
Get Carter has as much value as a piece of social history as it does as a thriller. - 80
BBC
As bleak as it is hard and viciously uncompromising, Get Carter is one of those films that has become increasingly interesting over time. - 80
Variety
Mike Hodges' top-notch adaptation of a Ted Lewis novel not only maintains interest but conveys with rare artistry, restraint and clarity the many brutal, sordid and gamy plot turns. - 80
The New York Times
Its violence is so ghastly and unremitting and its view of the human condition is so perfectly vile that one would almost rather wash one's mouth out with soap than recommend it. Yet it is so finely acted and crafted—and is so spectacularly better than the run of its genre—that as a lover of movies one feels practically diity‐bound to sing its praises. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Get Carter has the sure feel for the underbelly of society, like the good American detective novelists have always had. - 75
Chicago Reader
Often grim, sometimes nasty, but awfully interesting.
